Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
The debate rages on: is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
Alan J. Perlis
If you get it free, it is worthless. If you pay for it, it has value. If you build it yourself, it is priceless.
Raj More
I went to school to learn how to program software applications, which inevitably have bug defects. There was no course at my university on testing, debugging, profiling, or optimization. These things you have to learn on your own, usually in a tight deadline.
Juixe TechKnow
It's 5.50 a.m.... Do you know where your stack pointer is?
Anonymous
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.
Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
Alan J. Perlis
XML is like violence - if it's not working for you, you're not using enough of it.
Anonymous
Make it correct,
Wes Dyer
make it clear,
make it concise,
make it fast.
In that order.